So, I finally decided to order mine, and turbowholesale doesn't list them anymore, and niether does Whiteline Hopefully, I'm doing something wrong, and can't find them. I wrote to both of them, and will see what they say.
I did some screwing around with forging, straightening out thick American car suspension springs. I wonder if I could take a piece of hardened rod, and bend it to the right shape, and make a 22mm swaybar.
I did a little research into making my own sway bars. The tricky bit is the material. 4120 spring steel is very expensive. One of the branches of the company I work for manufactures rod in various sizes for the oil field. I was trying to figure out if one of our products would do the job but never got very far. The materials people here know everything there is to know about continuous sucker rod and almost nothing about anything else.
Heating and bending it in a jig wouldn't be a problem, but then giving it the correct temper would be difficult. Not many places have an oven that can fit a bent up sway bar.
94' RS/GS/MS/CF Monster Turbo...coming soon.
93' GS SE, the Black Beast, the former love of my life...soon to be gutted and crushed.
94' GS, black on black, now in several small pieces...and one large crushed piece.
2007 Mazda3 GT Sport --- super fun
2004 Honda RC51 --- Lost forever to some theavin' bastard My Worklog My feedback thread Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Also note from Whiteline, that the MX-3 part number is a rear sway bar in 22mm diameter. They list no front sway bar for MX-3. The best shot at a front oversized sway bar is the BG 323 GTX 24mm bar. I'm not sure if it would work though as the 4WD cars had different front sub frames.
94' RS/GS/MS/CF Monster Turbo...coming soon.
93' GS SE, the Black Beast, the former love of my life...soon to be gutted and crushed.
94' GS, black on black, now in several small pieces...and one large crushed piece.
2007 Mazda3 GT Sport --- super fun
2004 Honda RC51 --- Lost forever to some theavin' bastard My Worklog My feedback thread Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hmm... will a stiffer rear sway bar result in more oversteer or understeer?
I'd really like to reduce my overall body roll. I have SRD polyurethane front sway bar bushings that I need to install.. didn't find the time. I'd really like to change both sway bars, but I guess we're out of luck for the front eh?
I've got a '96 so I suppose I'm lucky to begin with. but the body roll is pretty bad on our cars. :/
Yoda did a great post about this. He said, along with the rear swaybar upgrade, and other things, it's actually best to not even use the front swaybar. The rear upgrade ruduces understeer more than I expected. I haven't had a chance to push the car to the point of understeer again, yet, since it's at a higher speed that will take some getting used to. I will be installing the SRD reproduction stuff before the car I get a chance to test it, so it'll be interesting